September 6, 2026
December 22, 2025
Our work “Our Collective Voices: The Social and Technical Values of a Grassroots Chinese Stuttered Speech Dataset” was published at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025), a leading interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine the social, ethical, and political impacts of AI […]
December 22, 2025
Our Paper Wins Best Paper Award at AIES 2025! We are thrilled to share that our paper, “Govern With, Not For: Understanding the Stuttering Community’s Preferences and Goals for Speech AI Data Governance in the US and China,” has been selected as a Best Paper Award winner at the AAAI/ACM […]
July 5, 2025
In collaboration with researchers and scholars from Carnegie Mellon University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Gallaudet University, Apple, Cornell University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of Maryland, College Park, we led a CHI 2025 workshop on “Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, […]
September 9, 2024
By Shaomei Wu Given that we are now deep in the space of speech AI technology, I attended InterSpeech 2024 conference for the first time last week at Kos Island, Greece. It was an eye-opening experience, I enjoyed meeting researchers and practioners interested in fair speech AI in person – […]
March 25, 2024
AImpower.org was founded on a fundamental belief that marginalized communities – underserved and underrepresented by technologies – have the authority and the rights to take charge of their own technological experiences. As a tech nonprofit, our role is to amplify their authority and rights, co-creating fair and equitable technologies for, […]
January 18, 2023
We are excited to share that, our research with the stuttering community on their videoconferencing experience has been accepted by the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23)! Our paper, titled “‘The World is Designed for Fluent People’: Benefits and Challenges of Videoconferencing Technologies for People […]